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  • Edinburgh Festival 2008: Wisdom and wonder in Prokofiev&aposs musical toybox

    Ivan Hewett reviews the London Symphony Orchestra and Gergiev at Usher Hall. ...
    2008-08-21 14:33:42
  • Duffy: small wonder

    Duffy, the Welsh singer behind the mega-hit &aposMercy', packs a lot of energy into a tiny frame. After a morning in her orbit, Lucy Cavendish can well understand how she came to prove all he...
    2008-08-21 14:32:42
  • Selling Lehman

    A Chinese flag flutters outside the New York Stock Exchange in honour of the Beijing Olympics. But wags wonder if it merely confirms a trend in the ownership of Wall Street. Lehman Brothers appears to...
    2008-08-21 14:21:49
  • Teary Americans back to women's volleyball final after 24 years

    As emotional as they always are, the American women celebrated their historic return to the Olympic final in 24 years on Thursday afternoon with big smiles on the tearful faces. No wonder they we...
    2008-08-00 00:00:00
  • History's Back The Weekly Standard

    The Weekly Standard - One wonders whether Russia's invasion of Georgia will finally end the dreamy complacency that took hold of the world's democracies after the close of the Cold War....
    2008-08-21 10:25:00
  • Kenya: Wamwiri, Akinyi Beaten

    On a day Beijing turned into one big reggae concert after Jamaica's wonder kid Usain Bolt added the 200 metres gold and world record to the gold and world's fastest ever time he clocked in the...
    2008-08-21 08:50:08
  • Saving the redwoods is a venerable institution

    In 1917, as the new Redwood Highway pushed into Humboldt County, replacing a tortuous wagon road, tourists began to motor north to gaze up in wonder at the giant coastal redwoods. Many, though, were d...
    2008-08-21 05:24:43
  • Liukin who Sports agent strikes gold with U.S. gymnast

    BEIJING Reuters - Sports agent Evan Morgenstein cannot stop smiling and no wonder -- he has Olympic gold-medalist U.S. gymnast Nastia Liukin on his client list.&ltp>&lta href="http://f...
    2008-08-21 03:02:09
  • Why iPhone Wannabes Don't Cut It

    Since the iPhone came out, handset makers have tried to replicate the touch-screen wonder. But software deficiencies mean that even a good copy, like the Samsung Instinct from Sprint, falls short. Now...
    2008-08-21 02:15:32
  • Explorer's Long-Awaited Update

    BW Columnist Steve Wildstrom wonders why it took Microsoft so long to launch IE 7, especially now that it must confront challengers like Firefox ...
    2008-08-21 02:07:32
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